Southern Nebraska Register
Father Brian Kane, rector of St. Gregory the Great Seminary in Seward, will be the guest speaker at Magnificat’s Nov. 4 prayer meal.
The event will be held from 9:30 a.m. to noon at Hillcrest Country Club, 9401 “O” St., Lincoln. The morning includes breakfast, prayer, praise and worship, and Father Kane’s talk.
Father Kane was raised in Maryland but spent summer vacations on his grandparents’ Nebraska farm. He attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and began to attend daily Mass at the St. Thomas Aquinas Newman Center.
Father Kane said he started to have a longing in his heart to do the things priests do. He said he would sit after Mass thinking, “if I were a priest, I’d say this in my homily.” He became more and more in love with the Mass and with the Eucharist, with Jesus.
In 1994 he entered the seminary and was ordained for the Lincoln Diocese in 2000.
The first six years after his ordination for the Diocese of Lincoln, Father Brian Kane encountered a wider range of pastoral settings than many priests do in a lifetime. He has served in a parish, taught high-school religion and ministered to college students, and he has also served as a chaplain with the Nebraska Army National Guard, deployed to Iraq.
Father Kane later served as dean of men at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary; and is now rector at St. Gregory the Great Seminary.
Magnificat is a ministry to Catholic women; a private association of the faithful within the Catholic Church under the jurisdiction of the Lincoln Diocese. Women of other Christian faiths are invited to share in the prayer meals, as well.
The primary purpose of Magnificat is to help Christian women become more open to the Holy Spirit through a deeper commitment of their lives to Jesus as Lord, and to impart the Holy Spirit to one another by their love, service and sharing the good news of salvation.
Magnificat started in 1981 in New Orleans and has since become an international ministry, with chapters currently located in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Malta, Poland, and Africa. Magnificat of Lincoln, the Morningstar Chapter, was approved by Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz and held its first prayer meal March 9, 1996.
For more information about Magnificat, please visit the link on the diocesan website.
To attend theNov. 4 event, mail a $30 check (student price: $20), payable to Magnificat by Saturday, Oct. 28, to Tina Colgan, 521 N. 56th St., Lincoln, NE 68504. Pre-paid registrations only, no walk-ins. With questions, please contact coordinator Rhonda Litt by text at 402.525.6396.
